All I can do is LOL at this response. Steve is obviously a genius and all of us owe a lot to him, but being woefully ignorant about the obvious and repeating failings of Apple (or in this case more than likely playing stupid) is not benefiting anybody.
Apple lost the smart phone war the same way they lost the PC war back in the 80s. In the 80s everyone was using Lotus Notes. Apple made their own competing product and tried to force users to buy it. They already had Lotus Notes. By locking the platform down they alienated users, developers, and the tinkerers that drive the whole band wagon.
Then in the 90s they did something GENIUS. They took Unix (Linux), gave it a pretty menu and made it usable by all. OS X was the last good thing Apple ever did in my opinion, and I'm not alone in this opinion. OS X is great, even today, and has been since day one.
Then what did Google do? The same exact thing. They took Linux, and made it usable for smart phones and tablets. And of course, Android ROCKS.
The difference here is between iOS and Android. Android has a wide open market, open source tools, encourages tinkerers and devs at every turn (see the XDA forums). Apple is locked down. iTunes or gtfo. iTunes sucks. It doesn't run right on ANYTHING, even OS X. It's a huge monstrosity of crap, and it regularly locks out innovators and tinkerers because they might threaten Apple's precious walled garden. Well, keep defending that walled garden because every tech worth his salt is already modding their android with jelly bean and writing .apks and putting them all over the universe.
The most egregious thing Apple has done is taking the ideas of other developers, locking them out of the market and then making their own Apple version of the previous app. What do you think those devs did? They left iOS and Apple forever, and with extreme prejudice. If it's YOUR PHONE, you shouldn't need to jailbreak it.
Then the patent suits about rectangles with rounded corners, a design that has been around over 20,000 years, including the ancient Egyptians? Apple is disgusting, I don't know any serious hacker who will support that company anymore. They already lost the new battle, a Nexus 7 does 50x more than any iProduct, and it's only $199! Less than half the price of an ipad that has less usable apps, less hacking potential, less OSes to try out, less everything.
1.3 MILLION androids are selling a day now. Dump your Apple stock and buy Google, Motorola, Samsung..... You know, market leaders that can see the obvious and follow the cash. Apple is going nowhere fast, their hey day ended the second Android began doubling their market share, and it's a net benefit for every geek and society as a whole. Apple has sucked since Woz left, maybe even before. And Jobs was clearly an asshole. His walled garden legacy is going to die on the vine, and I for one welcome our new open source unlocked free market overlords.